The Everton Board Thread (Inc. Bill Kenwright / Blue Union)

Is it time for Change...???

  • Kenwright an the Board out, We need Change.

    Votes: 503 80.0%

  • Im Happy with the way thing are. Kenwright an the Board should stay

    Votes: 126 20.0%
  • Total voters
    629
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davek said:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ever...verton-fc-deal-100252-32250623/#ixzz2CTivwo53


The theatre impresario was also quick to rubbish suggestions Everton are among a small band of Premier League clubs reportedly in opposition to Uefa’s Financial Fair Play proposals. We are not against any kind of financial fair play,â€￾ he said. “We have to abide by financial fair play because we wouldn’t exist if we didn’t. We are not against it, but we just want more talk and more consultation about it. There are a lot of people who don’t understand it and it needs more discussion. We have got to make sure that the clubs that do have a tough road to survival can stand up and be counted alongside the clubs that have huge incomes thanks largely to benefactor owners.â€￾

I dont blame him: the owner of a club that cant generate cash, cant build a stadium to generate more cash and only has the prospect of a takeover to look forward to.
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Of course hes a bit sketchy on the whole thing.

He wants to flog the club for 150million, but fully well knows whoever will pay that will keep us in the same position as we are now as they will have to pump a further 200million just to build an infastructure rather than in the transfer market.

As for the other clubs...

Fulham will feel the same as they've no room to grow and will be unable to get a sugar daddy.

Villa have to restructure to balance the books and cant spend anymore.

City just want to spend.
 
kenada_blue said:
Of course hes a bit sketchy on the whole thing.

He wants to flog the club for 150million, but fully well knows whoever will pay that will keep us in the same position as we are now as they will have to pump a further 200million just to build an infastructure rather than in the transfer market.

As for the other clubs...

Fulham will feel the same as they've no room to grow and will be unable to get a sugar daddy.

Villa have to restructure to balance the books and cant spend anymore.

City just want to spend.
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Elstone a year ago conceded pretty much the same on the OS:

“For 130 years one of the legitimate ways to fund a football club is for a benefactor to invest and take his club from down here to up here, and the financial fair play rules basically close the door on that option. Say you’re the owner of the oil or gas pipe coming out of Belarus and you want to take your local club on and win the Champions League in 10 years. Financial fair play stops you from doing that and I philosophically disagree with that. The new rules will ingrain the existing order. Uefa will say ‘that’s great’, and what you are doing is rewarding the clubs with big stadia and big fan-bases who are being run on those financially sensible grounds. But football is about dreams and I wonder if that dampens the dream a bit.â€￾

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2011/10/18/ceo-on-financial-fair-play
 
Does anyone else think that if we finish top 4 this season,
we might actually attract legitimate, potential new club owners
who are serious about purchasing the club?
 
Neiler said:
You have to laugh at the irony, being that - that was the problem in the first palce.
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The problem wasn't the EGMs; the problem was that the board refused to be accountable...which begat the EGM's.

It's good to see Elstone wont stand in the way of a petition to reinstate the AGMs that were going a 100 years before he was born. Very noble of him.
 
Re-instating AGM's won't make a blind bit of difference. Questions they want to answer will be answered and the ones they don't, won't.
 
davek said:
The problem wasn't the EGMs; the problem was that the board refused to be accountable...which begat the EGM's.

It's good to see Elstone wont stand in the way of a petition to reinstate the AGMs that were going a 100 years before he was born. Very noble of him.
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The problem was 100% the EGM's & the stated intention of a number of small shareholders to continuously call EGM's until they got their wish of a 'show of hands' vote. They forced the major shareholders into changing the articles, as they left them no other option, as the articles would have allowed them to continue abusing the reason why the EGM option existed.

Kenwright should never have halted the AGM's, that was just piss weak, but on the EGM's he had no choice but to act.
 
Foot Long Hot Dog said:
The problem was 100% the EGM's & the stated intention of a number of small shareholders to continuously call EGM's until they got their wish of a 'show of hands' vote. They forced the major shareholders into changing the articles, as they left them no other option, as the articles would have allowed them to continue abusing the reason why the EGM option existed.

Kenwright should never have halted the AGM's, that was just piss weak, but on the EGM's he had no choice but to act.
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How can it be deemed a 'problem' when the rules of the club, as it stood, allowed for it? That's like saying the originators of the PLC all those years ago were wrong to include the provision. In any case, the EGMs were being forced at a point when the club was in convulsion over an opportunist stadium scheme being forced through. What's the excuse now? That's been put to bed long since. Are the majority owners afraid of having a few questions thrown at them by smaller shareholders? They have nothing to hide...do they?
 
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